[Fixed]-Why does django not see my tests?

You´ll need to use the prefix test_ for each test method.

Summary

0. Try running for your app only:

   python manage.py test YOUR_APP
   

1. Check in your settings.py file if YOUR_APP is in INSTALLED_APPS config.

2. Test method should start with test_, e.g.:

   def test_something(self):
       self.assertEquals(1, 2)
   

3. If you are using a directory called tests instead of the tests.py file, check if it has a __init__.py file inside it.

4. If you are using a tests directory, remove tests.pyc and tests.pyo files. (__pycache__ dir for Python3)

Try renaming your method test to something like test_content.

I believe the test runner will run all methods named test_* (see the python docs for organising test code. Django’s TestCase is a subclass of unittest.TestCase, so the same rules should apply.

You have to name it tests.py .

After some time spent in searching I did not find anyone suggesting this, so I will share it as a late answer.
In my case I have my manage.py in the root directory eg

.
...
├── dir
│   ├── project_name
│   ├── manage.py
│   ├── media
│   ├── app1
│   ├── static
│   ├── staticfiles
│   ├── templates
│   └── app2
...

so I found that the test command has the option to provide project which tests’ to run. In my case I had to do this

python project_name/manage.py test ./project_name/

This successfully ran my tests.

I had tried all these things but I neglected to add the __init__.py file in the tests directory that I created to hold all my tests and Django couldn’t find it.